The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 15, 1940, Page 3

THE CAPITOL HAS THE BIG PICTURES Show Place cof Juneau s Great Enteriainment? Any One Who Saw It Yesterday! HE PUT (24 ne IN CHEYENNE! ! . @ %, Call the sheriff SHORTS ch of Time ‘Wit Disney Cartoon ews of the Day 1 £D PAIR OF UDEVILLE TO TRAVEL, ALASKA ) advices from Brem- the vaud eve: Miss Edithe Kempthorne Organized Younger Set Here in 1913 picture in The Empire, he Kemp- YV ap VeqE® 4 \ |\ \ News Picture Recalls Club, Juneau Girls two of and has Mr may trapeze stage see pair, i juggles troupe of trick dogs w oldtimers in the s the “peacock feath » new days ago of Edi recalled to many now resid- the time when she was in th and organized the Camp Fi Miss Kempthorne LB {has made the Camp Fire Girls her ilife work and is now National Camp | Fire Girls’ Secretary, with her head- | quarters in New York City. Norwomen Dinner s in Now Yo was accomplished Norwomen dinner will be|tau: music. She accompanied erved at 6 o k Thursday eve- many singers including Mrs, H. L. ning in the Parlors of the North-!Faulkner when she made her debut Light Presbyterian Church and|at a concert in Juneau reservations may made by call-| Miss Kempthorne organized the g 373 |camp Fire Girls here and ihe or- John A. Glasse will preside | zanization ccntinued for many years inner table and the menu|later developing into the present irs. Katherinc | Girl Scouts, although the Camp Fire | Girls is one of the big organizations Mr. A. Mil- | 1meng girls, in the States. qrapher, wil | Many of the members of the Camp his movie, vest of the|Fire Girls, as originally organized Community singing for the|here are now residents of Juneau ion will be led by Mrs. There- | #nd are Dorothy Pegues, Madge White. Wade, Mabel Nance, Dorothy Cron- & dahl, Hazel MacKinnon and Mary Bavard. 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YOUNG STARRED HERE § \""Maisie”’ Féatured Now at Capitol Theatre for Tonight, Tuesday Robert Young in boots and som- | brero is a novel sight that aw: | motion pieture fans at the Capitol | Theatre, where he makes his debut | as a he-man of the plains in “Mais- | the comedy-drama in which he is featured with Ann Sothern. Although fans should not be sur-| prised, because horses are You side-line in private life, they prob- | ably will be when they see him as| a two-fisted, woman-hati ranch- | er who can ride, fight or love as the | occasion demands. “Maisie” a story laid in the West, but is not a horse opera in | any sense of the word. Itis a \(’l',\"‘ modern story of the tangled livi of four people—a rancher, a honky- tonk showgirl, an Eastern business man and hs wife who are brought together through circumstances that at times are humol build to a big dramatic climax when a sui- cde eads to a murder trial There is no cattle rustling, nor old claims at stake. There is no e in the final reel with the hero arriving in the nick of time to save. the girl from the conniving villair But it is replete with smart st angles and sums up to fine, intel- ligent and, at times, thrilling en- tertainment. SHOWS ON BROADWAY ARE MIXED Odd Paflerrrrl of Political Horseplay, Anfi-Nazi Farces, Good Lines By GEORGE TUCKER ¥ Star Rlfilhe; Is l’apa NEW YORK, Jan. 15 New York's theatrical program this sea- son has already spread out into such an odd pattern of pathologi- cal war cases, political horse-play, anti-Nazi farces, and dramatized biography that one can scarcely hazard at this writing a guess as to where it is going. There is 1y evidence of good “line w and in the case of Mr. George S, Kaufman and Mr. Moss Hart, the well known pillagers of temples, an extraordinarily high talent for buffoonery that is both wittily and acrimoniously elegant. But I am not so surg that 1939- '40 is going to come up to the sis- ter it left behind. The Clair Boothe Luce of “Margin for Error” is not become a |the Clair Boothe Luce of “The COnVINCINg propa | Women” or “Kiss the Boys Good- i |bye.” “Margin for Error” is Miss Boothe's design for ridiculing the | Nazis. Last year she ridiculed those who sought a suitable Scarlett O'- Hara for “Gone” and despite its witty lines, that comedy was a suc- cess because the play itself was so funny that it could not escape succesg. Ridiculing the Nazis is, by com- parison, only slap-stick. You can put lines into any comedian’s 8 mouth and permit him to dom- Personator. does oi S |inate the stcoge. This is what| But cven I you had . 08 | happens in “Margin for Error.” | heard of Wocllcott you awuld..aml‘ | The wicked daggers which Mis i be completely enthralled by its a]v-‘ | Boothe threw in her previous WO8€t! les as comedy | comedies have all been exchanged | YOU never saw suci “"“f"‘_jlblc M"'! {for custard pies. The audience Uatons and A situa- laughs, and the caricature of an|Uons which you. il . American-German bund leader is| That, to me is the qualifying es-| | made to appear ridiculous. But | sential. As insane as it is, some- | | C someway, you Wt t the triumph here is @ triumph for DOW. SOmet ou KNOW, that 1t | the bully over the vmagejnuv_ only can, but that it has hap- idiot. Tt is no contest. What Miss Peed: | Boothe's objective was I am, of | course, unable to say. If she want- & Fete Miss Forrest play as well. gnificent anda 1 fun, give me “The Man me to Dinner.” I think it's lay I ever saw, Per- ent traces For 1 Who C the funnie; haps some of its enjc to the knowledge th: Alexander Woollcott is being caricatured. If you know Woollcott or have a sympathetic knowledge of his ac- tivities, you simply have to laugh because you are aware that Wooll- cott, in life, is capablc almost everything Monty Wooley, 5 im- of I the in - If, on the other hand, she really | wanted to discredit Nazism, she| missed the mark. The play is funny only because of the pies she hurls at her hand-made stooges.| nowly installed and past foficers | T personally regret that she didn't| ¢ (10 Ordg of Eastern Star com- begin with two equal forces—that plimented Miss Gladys Forrest, re- is to say, with her Nazi represen- Worthy Matron, with a lun- | tatives the intellectual equals of Saturday afternoon in the | her anti-Nazis—and then calmly Room of the Scottish Rite let the Nazis disinfect themselves through the inferiority of their | own logic. I think this would have|five seated at the luncheon table | | which was decorated for the occas- N | ith o huge arrangement of | i SR daffodils and tapers of blending col- m 'l'op ors. During the affair Miss For- CABS—PHONE rest was presented with a gift 678 | Mrs. Mildred Wyller, newly elected Worthy Matron, on behalf of those present, The luncheon menu was prepared by Mrs. Katherine Hooker, BUY GREEN TOP RIDE | AR S COUPON BOOKS: | Seven tea tasters | tastes of America. They meet an- 625 In rides for $5.00 |nually to test tea samples and to $3.00 in rides for $2.50 | decide which teas shall be admitted into the United States, tiring cheen Blue Te were approximately twer TEEN-AGE TRIUMPH_The tw their ages makes quite a difference in the 13 (left), of Tuckahoe, N. Y., and James F N. Y., who played each other in the national indoor junior tennis tourney. Debany lost to Fields, 6 boys’ singles at New York City. and | | taiiment of .civi liberti dictate the tea ¢ MONDAY, JAN 15, 1940. year difference in es of George Debany, elds, 15, of Brooklyn, 1, 6-1, in second round of the Don Lash and baby Former Indiana Univers'ty world record holder in the distance runs, Don Lash, now an Indiana state policeman, is shown with his so) an eight-pound boy born Christmas day. Sugar Bowl carnival at New Orleans. Lash is competing in the CONVENTION I 10 END TODAY: MASS MEETING Union. Delegates Urge "Keep America Out of European War” Maritime Federaticn the Convention is slated to fin- convention work here this after three days of con- The of Pacific ish its evening clave During the day, resolutions were passed in which it urged that legislation be designed to keep America out of war, endorsing: the Maritime Federation tract on t “The Yanks Are Not Comin The. ‘convention ‘“viewed alarm” the growing drive for cur- and growth of vigilante groups throughout the country, This morning, a silent tribute was paid to. the memory of Mrs. Richard aw, of Aberdeen, Washington, re- cently murdered wife of a CIO lead- er. Mrs. Law was characterized as a victim of “organized murder by vigilante groups and charged crim- inal negligence” on the part of the City administration of Aberdeen. onight in Miners' Hall, the Fed- n will sponsor a mass meet- ing to which the public will be in- vited for a general airing of Alaska labor problems. The mass meeting will close. the convention. A A Mrs. Bertha Vaughn Is On Juneau Visit| Bertha Vaughn, of Wran- is now visiting Mrs. Ralph E. B4 at the latter's home onMain trip to Sifka, then return here for another brief visit, then south “to wrangell enroute to Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, t. Mrs, Vaughn will make a| MUSICAL HIT AT COLISEUM SHOW NOW PLAYING the | Lamour as atir Dorothy story that star's cwn ¢ to come monjl ic Casting lead in a tion of the of the be: Hollywood in many & bines with mu facting to make the picture, “St. Louis Blues,” whict ened ‘Sunday at the Coliseum Tt a witty, colorful and highly or- | 1 por- | me idea It and Lamo story ippi show- with very little | an ribber” touch about | setting well suited to romance, vital charac- amour, the in the drama (and orous aboard a remotest tropical isle) port theatrical ~ celebrity against her manager she never appear ir ng. When Since of life ¢ boat of 1 of the \ge. ntral figure lam- on the A rebels dictum that xcept in riverbe 1 rays who p! the playe piet cme Cewan, Lamour th or rath frem him durir dle West lamar sponge away Mid- 1 runs e HUSBAND'S NIGHT | T0 BE SPONSORED BY WOMAN'S CLUB The regular monthly social meet- (ing of the Juneau Woman's Club | will be an event of Wednesday eve- ning, it was announced today by Mrs. John McCormick, Chairman of the Legislative Department of the club, under whose auspices the event will be held. The affair will be in the nature of a no-host banquet, held in the Gold Room of the Bar- anof Hotel, and will be unique in| that husband of club members will | be honor guests of wives. Legislative Program | Appropriate to the present pre- filing days for candidates with am- bitions to hold public office, the affair will feature a legislative pro- | | gram of unusual excellence and quite "a few surprises, not only in the mat- ter of musical numbers but in the | more “meaty” discussions that will be included | Heavy Reservations Mrs. C. Rulaford is in charge of reservations for the banquet and she announces that a great deal of | interest is being manifested in the event and that early indications are | that a record crowd will be on hand | to participate in the event. In ad-| dition to club husbands, several| special guests have been invited. | Clever Programs i Unique programs, showing the| progress of bills through a legisla- ture and some of the pitfalls await- ing the unwary sponsor of legisla- tion, e being provided to givel| special zest to the affair. Assisting Mrs. McCormick in working out de- tails of this unusual event are Mi | William L. Paul, and Mrs. R. R. Hermann. ! Slated to begin promptly at 6:30 oclock the banquet will be informal | and the admonition to “come as you | are” is being given to all who plan | to attend. the e SKIERS TAKE "~ ADVANTAGE OF FIRST SNOW | Operated for First Time Sunday Approximately seventy skiers were out on the Douglas Ski Trail yes- terday, most of them eongregating very popular. The newly installed ski tow was operated and proved highly satis- factory to Juneau ski fans who have been used to walking for their skiing. One skier reported that he rode the |tow 22 times and got in four times s much down hill skiing as former- ly. The tow will be operated for junior skiers next Saturday at a special rate of 35 cents for the after- noon The skiing area was a bit rough but will be better after another snowfall. Outside of the slalom course there was a trap crust which was dangerous. There was a notice- able improvement in skiing tech- nique over last year and everyone was trying for control rather than peed. Members of the ski patrol, Junéau’s winber flrlfi-ald’s, were | ualties. ;Newly Installed Ski Tow Is| |at the Slalom Course. Ralph Moreau | conducted his ski school which was | m Junecau's Greatest Show Value NOW!? gUEEN OF THE MISSISSIPPI... . Dorothy Lamour as the singing. swinging show-boat sweetheart! DOROTHY LAMGUR -LLOYD HOLAN I GRZAR JPESE COWM - T GAPH WL FRALEY A1 A S T MATASD T KNGS DN MUK o B Okt - Vitaphone Variety Pictorial—————News COLD WAVE HITS HERE - Son’s Slayer Freed ne fires burning watch the water Keep the ¥ to- night and -also pipes. There is a cold wave in this sec- tion, in fact it struck yesterday. The Weather Bureau the temperature was 14 during the night and tonight--wow -a predic tion is made that the tempes ture might drop to 8 degrees above zero The breeze—moderate to is the prediction - o> says sh fre; \John McCormicks Are ‘Pariy Hosts Mr. and Mrs. Jol tained with cc rine dance last and following th tish Rite Temple to the McCormick West Twelfth Street for supper. Th eoccasion was celebration of Mrs birthday which is oday Those enjoying the evening were Mr. and Mrs. M. E. Monagle, Mr. and Mrs. Howard Simmons, Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Adan Mr. and Mr:s Charles Sabin, Mr. and Mrs. George Sundborg and Mr. and Mrs. L. W Turoff. Dorothy Sherwood Former Salvation Army lassie ant burlesque dancer, Dorothy Sher wood, 81, was released on parol( from Westfield State Farm in Bed: ford Hills, N. Y., where she had been imprisoned since 1938 for the drowning of her 2-year-old son POPULAR JUNEAU FISHERMAN BACK 1 Jensen, well known oldtimer hermen, returned today after a visit cal said - n McCorr befo v evening the Scot- returned lence on buffet also in McCormick's te a visited with many ailing cronies in wn, sowe of whom i not seen in thirty > PETRICH RETURNS Petrich returned by PAA ssterday from Fairbanks been taking pictures lying under winter con- norting some “zood shots.” out in force and reported nc Although a cold wind wa. ia in Juneau, there was little the Douglas skiing areas, and everyone reported a succes on their first day out. e Mrs. Paul Ozment Willl/isit Here her first trip to the Territcry, Mrs. Paul Ozment of Jac n, Tennessee, arriving this afterncon on the Canadian Pacific Princess Norah. She will visit in Juneau for several months with her mother, Mrs. K. N. Neill, lowing Making Butler-Mauro Drug Co.—in Doug- las by Guy's Drug Store. 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